name
Meaning 1
The language of these people.
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name
The language of these people.
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noun
One of a Siberian people who speak a Turkic language, and live in the Lena river basin.
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noun
the Turkic language spoken by the Yakut
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Broader terms: Turki, Turkic, Turko-Tatar, Turkic language
noun
a member of a Turkic people of northeastern Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin)
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Broader terms: Turki
History
From Russian яку́т (jakút), from Proto-Turkic *yaka (“collar; edge”). Related to Yakut саха (saqa) via earlier *čaqa < *ǰaqa. Compare Turkish yaka (“collar”). The ending -ут possibly contains the Mongol plural suffix; compare Buryat яхад (jaxad, “Yakuts”).
Across languages
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